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Public Service Commissioner Finishes Vegas W ater Survey K g M i I f 1 8 ?M9 While here, the commissioner I conferred with AI Folger, general manager of theT^TVefasTCand land Water company, a score or | more individual users who were ' without water at intervals for j several days, Harry Miller, chairman of the Las Vegas Valley water district board, Fire Chief ; Harold Case and others. | Williams, said Folger told him | he had recommended to the gen eral office of- the company at Omaha, that additional wells be put down to augment the source of supply. | The commissioner at first ex-j pressed opposition to the pro-iPosal to bring water in from Lake Mead on the grounds it ! would be “too costly.” Before j leaving for Carson City, however, .he learned that the water table (here had reached the lowest point in history, indicating another source of supply was almost fa definite “rrfust” if Las Vegas | is to continue growing. Williams said he was without j authority to release his findings j here, that his function was to j report to the commission. Other ; members are: J. G. Allard, chair-iihan, and A. M. Smith, state en- Igineer. ; ; 7 ' 2 ^ - V ' f
